"Philippines
are ours forever... The power that rules the Pacific... rules
the world....”

Sen.
Albert Beveridge

Batis:

https://www2.bc.edu/~weiler/imperialismdocs.htm

Philippine-American
War as a “small but peculiarly trying and difficult war” upon
which turned “not only the honor of the flag [but] “the triumph
of civilization over forces which stand for the black chaos of
savagery and barbarism."